Links
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Said the Gramophone: Best Songs of 2019
A highlight of every year since 2005.
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Do One Thing Well List 2019 - Hiut Denim Co - Medium
Lots of very nice things, if you’re stuck for Christmas gifts for someone in this particular demographic.
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I Found A Drain And Drained A Flooded Street During A Storm | MetaFilter
“A person going by the name post 10 clears blocked storm drains and posts unexpectedly satisfying videos of doing so to YouTube.” Very satisfying.
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Build your own React
I’ve only read a bit of this but aside from what seems like an interesting article, it’s a lovely example of going step-by-step through writing some code. (via @RandomEtc)
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My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition | Jacob Kaplan-Moss
As the previous edition, interesting. I’ll stick with pipenv instead of poetry for now, as I’m happy with it. I should use pipx but not sure how to go from my current mess to that. (via Simon Willison)
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Mwie Ltd (13 Nov., 2019, at Interconnected)
Matt’s thoughts on five years of being an independent consultant are interesting. I daren’t think too closely about my *mumble* years of freelancing.
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Notes: We’ve Got Blog (2002) (Kicks Condor)
“…my notes on the book We’ve Got Blog: How Weblogs Are Changing Our Culture … a pretty decent compilation of blog posts from … mostly 1999-2002.” Great. Fascinating excerpts and commentary.
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HOW - Pure CSS - cyanHarlow
Nicely done explanation of how Diana Smith uses CSS properties in her amazing CSS art, and what hat art looks like without each property. (via Waxy)
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All The Places | A growing set of web scrapers designed to output consistent geodata about as many places of business in the world as possible.
Handy, and a nice example of making scrapers to work with loads of different sites. (via Simon Willison)
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The Book of Dreams | Argos
I always wanted to put all the catalogues online, and they’ve done it. Gold. It’s a shame they don’t have usable indexes, as that’s how I navigated them in the 80s.
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Elderblog Sutra: 8
“I’ve neither succeeded spectacularly enough at what I do that I can afford to ‘make bad movies for the rest of my life’ … nor have I failed so miserably that it’s an easy call … to just toss it all as worthless sunk cost, and start afresh with whatever resources and talents I have left.”
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What happened to Early Retirement Extreme? An update from Jacob Lund Fisker
The father of “Financial Independence / Retire Early” on what he and his wife have been doing for the past decade or so of not having to work.
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Sweet Moderation, Heart of this Nation
On why Britain, its media, and Rory Stewart aren’t moderate and centrist. (via @markhurrell)
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My ethical investment strategy - Matthew Somerville
This is good. But there’s still no easy way to balance low-cost passive investing with investing ethically (whatever that means to you).
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dotfiles/setup.sh at master · lazerwalker/dotfiles
Impressed by this kind of thing but I don’t think I set up a new Mac often enough to do this. (via FaveJet)
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Marketing Expert Scott Galloway on WeWork and Adam Neumann
I’ve read a lot of articles about WeWork and this is by far the most frank and fun (but not fun if you’re an employee or landlord). (via Money Stuff)
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Weeknotes: Dogsheep
Having spent a lot of time writing my own tools to save copies of my data from third-party services, I like what Simon Willison’s doing here.
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Trek prep: Kit – The travels of Mary Loosemore
I do like Mary’s write-up of her trekking kit. More pragmatic than the ones that go for the fanciest brands and/or lightest possible weights.
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The Electric Typewriter
I was wondering about long and/or “classic” articles/essays that are available online, and this looks like a good collection.
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Nadia Eghbal | The tyranny of ideas
Really good. “Rather than viewing people as agents of change, I think of them as intermediaries, voice boxes for some persistent idea-virus that’s seized upon them and is speaking through their corporeal form.” (via Kicks Condor)
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Graphing Calculator Story
I don’t think I knew this before, and it’s much better than I expected “How the Mac’s graphing calculator was made” to be.
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8x6 Tiny Workshop Tour - Much requested walk around of my 48 square feet of woodshop hacks - YouTube
Best YouTube algo recommendation in a while. An amazing little space.
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Starship
A command line prompt that looks nice and displays useful info when useful.
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Animated chart of the day: Recorded music sales by format share, 1973 to 2019 - AEI
Good to watch. Also, the static “Revenues by format” charts put the “vinyl revival” into perspective. (via The Online Photographer)
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Help me not hate LA? | Ask MetaFilter
Lots of really nice answers full of people who have grown to love living in LA after moving there. Just positive and encouraging.
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Analytics, logs and metrics
For the bit about using GoAccess and a pixel hosted on S3 behind Cloudfront for logging. (via @dracos)
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gyford.com/ – Website Carbon Calculator
Over a year my site uses “57kWh. Enough electricity to drive an electric car 368km.” Very, very roughly, I imagine. (via Adactio)
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Your Attention is Sovereign by Jay Springett (PDF)
“The Loop”, “evaporative cooling”, “the Dark Forest internet”, “Waldenponding”, “The Isles of Blogging”. Good. (via Warren Ellis Ltd)